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About half of all respondents to a 2014 survey said they were worried about how much the Games would cost. A lot has changed since then. ( read original story ...)

A beloved "rabbit stationmaster" at a station in this city north of Tokyo will retire on Dec. 18 due to her advancing years, and will be kept by human station staff following the end of her service. ( read original story ...)

Japan's entry will use a hybrid boat on the second day of the Sydney round of SailGP racing after their F50 catamaran sustained serious damage in a collision with Britain on Friday. The collision ... ( read original story ...)

The Artisanal Spirits Company is to pay about £400,000 to take more control of its joint ventures in key Asian markets.That will see it take a larger ownership ... ( read original story ...)

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The Tokyo metropolitan government said Friday that a man in his 20s confirmed to be infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 h ... ( read original story ...)

Athletics emerged from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as the number one Olympic sport, according to International Olympic Committee data revealed by ... ( read original story ...)

A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story building in what police were investigating as a possible case of arson and murder. Police were searching for a possible suspect. ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. is rolling out new versions of its Advan UHP tires come 2022. The tire maker outlines just what sets these new models apart from their predecessors. ( read original story ...)

When the Tokyo 2020 Olympics began in July 2021, I was among a limited number of foreign journalists in Japan that covered the Games. ( read original story ...)

A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story building in downtown Osaka in western Japan on Friday left 24 dead in what police were investigating as a possible case of arson ... ( read original story ...)

Dutch wheelchair tennis player Diede de Groot and Swiss athlete Marcel Hug were among the 2021 Paralympic Sport Awards winners following ... ( read original story ...)

At least 24 people died after a suspected arson attack on a medical clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday — one of the deadliest blazes in Japan in about two decades. A fire broke out on the ... ( read original story ...)

A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story building in downtown Osaka in western Japan has left 24 dead in what police are treating as a possible case of arson. ( read original story ...)

Surging prices are haunting consumers and confounding economic planners in the U.S. and other countries, but not in Japan, where sparking inflation has proven an elusive goal. While the Federal ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his government is accelerating COVID-19 booster shots and securing oral medicines after speaking with Pfizer Inc. CEO Albert Burla ... ( read original story ...)